Here is a really adaptable planning worksheet for low ability students to plan or complete their letter writing assessment. This has all the guidance needed to help your students who need that extra bit of scaffolding. Happy Planning!

Well here is a little number to help your classes with those all important language devices for creative and persuasive writing. It will also help them learn all the language techniques ready for identifying them in novels and poems. This one is different from my other worksheets as this one is for low ability. Extra help and fill in the blankets is used here to help those struggling with these techniques. In this pack there is a full table with the Language Teachniques, definitions and examples. The other two sheets are for the students to fill in during the lesson to help them build a work bank of these language techniques. As I said, there is extra help in these ones as opposed to the others I have uploaded. I did this with my class and then set learning them for homework. They then were tested to see if they could spot examples of techniques and their meaning. Really simple, but beneficial resource.

Well here is a little number to help your classes with those all important language devices for creative and persuasive writing. It will also help them learn all the language techniques ready for identifying them in novels and poems. In this pack there is a full table with the Language Teachniques, definitions and examples. The other two sheets are for the students to fill in during the lesson to help them build a work bank of these language techniques. I did this with my class and then set learning them for homework. They then were tested to see if they could spot examples of techniques and their meaning. Really simple, but beneficial resource.

Here is another one of these fabulous Activity/Homework Booklets that will make setting homework a piece of cake. Just download this Travel Booklet resource, click print adding staples to make it into a booklet for your students to take home and you're sorted for this terms homework. Or use this little number in your lessons as a task that the students can do to get them used to writing and designing all based around travel. All 10 tasks in this booklet are linked directly to English and writing skills. This is a good one. There are activities such as collage making, poem and creative story writing, research tasks and designing activities. Happy Homework Setting!

Worrying about what you need to set for homework - well look no further... Here is a booklet full of your homework setting dreams. Here it is, the first of my Homework Booklet collection. This homework booklet was made to work along side a scheme of work for Year 7s who were in their first term at Secondary School. There are 10 tasks in this booklet such as letter writing, creative collage tasks, poems, cartoon strips, etc. It can be adapted and used as one off activities in or outside the classroom, or can simply be printed out in a booklet for homework. Happy Homework Setting!

Here is a cheeky little mark sheet you can use to speed up that last bit of marking. All you have to do it tick the boxes you want your students to complete and they can write the answers on their work or in the spaces on the second sheet. Marking made quick and easy,

The Context and Theme Linking Sheet is here. A Christmas Carol Part B of the GCSE paper is all about linking themes to the context to the quotations and ideas in the novella. So here is a sheet that gets the students to think about that and put it all on one revision sheet. How to use it... All you need to do is get the students to use the context notes (writing context notes is a separate lesson I did before this one) to write down shortened notes using subtitles such as Poor and Rich, Education, etc. Then use highlighters to link them to the themes in the middle boxes. Then the students must look through the book and find key moments and relevant quotations that would link to the theme and context they have selected. Done properly this is a really useful worksheet.

Whilst Christmas maybe over, some of us are still teaching the details of A Christmas Carol to our GCSE Classes. In order to start practicing the exam paper questions with my class, I created my own version of the paper with answers. In this pack, I have included lesson slides that take the students throught the extract using highlighters and questions to help them think about different ways in which Scrooge is presented. I also get the students to rate the quotations they have chosen so they can start thinking about which quotation are better qualities than others. You can use the 'Quote Answers' sheet to guide your students towards the correct points and quotations to answer Part A of the question paper. This lesson and practice paper really helped my students. I hope it helps yours too. Happy Teaching!

So here is a new design to my planning sheets. This is one for comparison, but it is very adaptable. You can just use this one and change it. As usual it has the different sections for students to fill in with regards to PEE. On the back of this there is even a labelled map of how this sheet should be used, including some helpful structure sections and helpful words.

This high ability model PEE paragraph will show your top students exactly how to write an outstanding answer to a question on tension using an extract from The Woman in Black. Please find the model paragraph and extract which was used. Happy Teaching!!

We all have those classes who need that extra bit of guidance when it comes to PEE, and that need reminding of the key descriptive words in A Christmas Carol. Here we have a very basic lesson with a wordsearch and questions all on Stave One of A Christmas Carol. These could be used as two separate starters or just as a simple lesson to get the students remembering the key sections of Stave One. For very low ability.

This is the THE Halloween lesson of the year. In this pack you have a lesson plan with a step by step guide of what you need to do when in the lesson; a power point slide for the lesson; cut out resources and... a booklet to print which is where the students do all the work. (Booklet is file: Handout 1 and Handour 2 printed separately and then copied double sided) This lesson is planned for an hour and looks at persuasive devices with a Halloween theme. All slides are about Halloween and all the model texts focus on the upcoming festival. There is even a fun clip link to tell students the true historical story of Halloween - definitely worth a watch. I know what I'm using for my classes on the 31st October. Buy it now and use it for this last week in preparation or on the day of the BIG event!!! Happy Teaching!!!

Struggling to teach basic comprehension or just need a competition/cover lesson with an extract and questions? Well, here it is! In order to help my class practice picking out quotations for one mark questions and then picking out two quotes and explaining them for a two mark question, I created this worksheet. It will take the class the whole lesson to get all the answers completely right. The extract I have used is from Of Mice and Men Chapter 3 when Carlson is persuading Candy to let him shot his dog. I have also attached the answers. This is a quick, easy and effective lesson just from one print out.

These are some newspaper article templates that I found online and have blown up tot go with my Newspaper lesson.

This is a adapted version of my Persuasive Leaflet Lesson. Instead this is all based around writing newspaper articles. It also has extra resources such as an article to annotate and another lesson where they put their new found knowledge into their own article. (Please see free resources for several newspaper templates, if needed) In this pack you will find two power point presentations that are both on revising persuasive language devices and then trying to find them in an article. (Please note this is an article I have got online and put into a newspaper article format with images)The only difference between the top two power points is one gives the examples and definitions to the class and the HA one asks the class questions to challenge them to remember. To go with this lesson there is the article and a hand-out sheet that the class can fill in when looking at the article. This gives them questions to answer about the article to help them identify the features and devices used in a persuasive article. After the class has completed this lesson, you will want to know if they now can apply their learnt skills to their own article. Please find attached the 'Practising Writing a Persuasive Newspaper Article Lesson' which will give them information (Short video online - not necessarily needed, but link available) and a success criteria on how to write an article. Please see free resources for newspaper templates. This really helped prepare my class for an assessment on newspaper articles. The engaging tops such as homework stress article and too many assessments information got them talking and interested.

Stuck teaching your class about structure and language for the new spec? Look no further! Here is a fantastic lesson pack that takes the class through how to answer the following question: How successful is Steinbeck at creating tension when Candy’s dog dies? In this pack you will find a power point presentation that is ready to go, as it guides the class through the extract (attached) and how they should annotate it. It then talks them through answering the question using PEE questions and PEE sentence starters. If that doesn't hit the spot, then wait until you see the two page top mark model answer that can be shown to that class to mark and then get them marking their own. This model answer includes, three structure model paragraphs on this question and two language/language device paragraphs. It comes together to create a full fabulous answer. The mark scheme for this is also included. This has helped my class massively, I hope it helps yours too.

Information sheets that link to 'An Inspector Calls'.

These two work sheets go with the information on Capitalism and Socialism I have uploaded to my free resources as the information is taken from the internet. What I got my students to do was to go through the texts and highlight the information that links to what happens in the play. I then got them to make links on the worksheets attached for each one using quotes to link the play and context more closely.